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Maybe work on a cover. I like to take existing songs by groups / people I enjoy and put a twist on them. Convert a song you like from 4/4 to 3/4. Changeup the rhythm pattern or something. Sing a soft song aggressively, whatever. Just butchering something someone else has done opens up your creativity.

Maybe work on a cover. I like to take existing songs by groups / people I enjoy and put a twist on them. Convert a song you like from 4/4 to 3/4. Changeup the rhythm pattern or something. Sing a soft song aggressively, whatever. Just butchering something someone else has done opens up your creativity.

I have found that this works a lot for me. Seeing how a professionally-done song really inspires me to create something like. I almost always feel the need to create something after dissecting a piece of music.

When this happens or i'm looking for inspiration I find a bunch of new (or new to me) music and find a few songs that I really like the melody or chord structure of. I then figure out (or look up) the chord progressions and play them - playing about with the tempo/rhythm, changing a chord here and there until i've just about got the bones of a song of my own. The way I write is that I come up with the chords first then the lyrics tend to just flow.

For lyrics writing I write a list of really cool rhymes and try to come up with phrases and sentences that way.